Do not make Osama a martyr - Obama

US: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says if Osama bin Laden is captured alive, the United States should bring him to justice in a way that avoids turning the al Qaeda leader into a martyr.

After meeting a team of foreign policy advisers, including some seasoned diplomats he has newly recruited in the run-up to November’s election, Obama hit back at efforts by his Republican rival John McCain to paint him as weak on fighting terrorism.

McCain allies including Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor of New York at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States by al Qaeda in 2001, have accused Obama of having a “pre-9/11 mindset” that focuses on law enforcement in the war on terror. Washington, Thursday, Reuters